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On games design...
cavalorn rants about game design. He's aiming at MMORPGs in particular, but I want to focus on one bit, which applies to many, many games:
Here is your second cardinal sin. Not explicating your game stats in the bloody game itself. [...] if I get an item that boosts a stat by X amount, kindly explain to me in very basic terms what that entails in ( Read more... ) -
my ipod's shuffle knows things, part 94
Generation Landslide, Alice Cooper. -
Releases...
For those who read my earlier post on Firefox 3, the final version is now out, and their download servers are now running smoothly1.
In other news, valve released details of their next update to TF2: two user-made maps getting an official download distribution, plus a mountain of changes to my fave class: the pyro. Released tomorrow. If any of ( Read more... ) -
Retroblogging: The saga of the thumb
This entry was actually mostly written in may 2008, but not tidied up and posted until August 2009. I suck at finishing entries, so sue me.It all started when I was driving home from work. Some buffoon in a white van decided to take a distinctly unorthodox route across a rather complicated road junction, without taking into account the fact that ( Read more... ) -
TV: Chuck
So, a nerd named Chuck has managed to end up with the entire contents of a sooper-sekrit NSA/CIA intelligence database downloaded into his brain; the original got destroyed at the same time. Each of those agencies have sent a top field agent to keep tabs on him (in both a good and bad way). Various hijinks ensue ( Read more... ) -
TV: Reaper
Being, the tale of a young man whose parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and his subsequent adventures hunting down souls who've escaped from hell while attempting to live a (relatively) normal life ( Read more... ) -
Why heavy web users need to check out Firefox 3
(With apologies to members of the choir who've heard this sermon before)
If you use the Internet a lot, you need to check out Firefox 3 when a flavour appropriate to your personal pre-release-software-comfort-zone is released (Beta 5 is out already, Release Candidate 1 is due soon, Final release is due in June). Here's why:
The primary methods ( Read more... ) -
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Grr. [evil muttering] CSS2 :focus selector [in CSS since 199-frackin'-8] [more evil muttering] IE [growl] Not even in v7, [grr]. Pile o' steaming wotsits. -
Sins of a Solar Empire Demo, first impressions:
It's a cross between an RTS and Civ-ish 4X game (probably closer to something like Master Of Orion or Galactic Civilisations 4X-in-space than vanilla Civ). The research trees are quite large and resource gathering is by planet colonisation/development (like a 4X game). On the other hand, it's not turn based, and the pace feels relentless (like an ( Read more... )